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‘A new world is being born’: author Rebecca Solnit on the ‘slow revolution’ the far right cannot tolerate https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/25/rebecca-solnit-slow-revolution-far-right-cannot-tolerate #RebeccaSolnit #Books #Culture #PoliticsBooks #UsPolitics #Society #Feminism #TheFarRight #Environment #Race #ClimateCrisis #ProtestUs

‘A new world is being born’: author Rebecca Solnit on the ‘slow revolution’ the far right cannot tolerate

It’s easy to focus on authoritarians and their petty victories. But zoom out and the picture is more encouraging, says the woman who popularised the term ‘mansplaining’, whether it’s in feminism, or the environment, or civil rights

The Guardian

Wettach (WGW)2d ago

Mittagspause mit @RebeccaSolnit und Blick auf die Universitätsbibliothek der @unituebingen - Solnit's "Thr Beginning Comes After The End" ist das LA Times "Most Anticipated Book of 2026" #amreading #RebeccaSolnit #uspol #Feminism #NativeRights

bsmall2 2d ago

> What the Mad Max franchise (which began only six years after the 1973 oil embargo) got right is that fossil fuel in its extremely uneven distribution throughout the world always seems scarce, and there's always violence over it. The climate movement is a peace movement in two ways.... https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/if-fossil-fuels-are-war-renewables-can-bring-peace/
#MadMax #ClimateMovement #RebeccaSolnit

If Fossil Fuels Are War, Renewables Can Bring Peace

On one side of the world the US and Israel are pursuing an ill-conceived attack on Iran that has hugely impacted the flow of fossil fuel in the region. This is already having a grim impact on daily life in many nations, jacking up the price of oil and gasoline,

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Pamela Barroway – Biz Editor Mar 18

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#RebeccaSolnit's latest piece. Her Meditations in an Emergency newsletter is 💯worth a follow, and is NOT on Substack!

Today I Need to Say Something About (the Stupidity of) #Antisemitism

#Jew #Jewish

https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/today-i-need-to-say-something-about-the-stupidity-of-antisemitism/?ref=meditations-in-an-emergency-newsletter

Today I Need to Say Something About (the Stupidity of) Antisemitism

Two stories erupted in the last twenty-four hours that have to do with antisemitism. One is deeply positive. It's a letter signed by 132 Jewish faculty and staff at UCLA rejecting the Trump Administration's definition of antisemitism while pointing out what's dangerous about this right-wing definition of antisemitism: it's an

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Longreads Mar 11

"Everything we can save is worth saving. Everything we can do is worth doing. We’ve already lost a lot, but we don’t have to lose everything. We don’t have to surrender." @RebeccaSolnit speaks with David Marchese for The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/magazine/rebecca-solnit-interview.html

#RebeccaSolnit #Interview #ClimateChange #Activism

Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

The writer and activist on how political change happens and taking the long view.

The New York Times

Anti. 🐘Mar 10

"It’s this idea that we don’t have to look for an individual, for a savior, for an Übermensch. I think the counter to Trump always has been and always will be civil society. A lot of the left wants social change to look like the French Revolution or Che Guevara. Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war. Too many people still expect it to look like war."

https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/on-my-never-ending-quest-for-clarity/

#RebeccaSolnit

Terminology, Clarity, and the Question of What Is the Left?

I often say that spoken and written are two different languages with their own grammar and their own difficulties and invitations. Anyone who's ever transcribed a conversation or an interview learns that most of us speak in phrases, rather than sentences, phrases whose intention is clarified by pauses, inflections, and

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bsmall2 Mar 9

> Politeness is not really the problem. I think we got into this situation in part by a lot of people in the mainstream thinking it was more important to be polite than to call things by their true names. There’s a wonderful historian and scholar of nonviolence named George Lakey who says polarization is good. That’s when you have clarity. Sometimes people have to pick sides. You do not get authoritarians to behave better by being meek and gentle and polite. You get it by being strong.
#SolnitOnPoliteness #RebeccaSolnit #GeorgeLakey

bsmall2 Mar 9

Community of Practice..
> Thich Nhat Hanh said before he died a few years ago that the next Buddha will be the Sangha. The Sangha, in Buddhist terminology, is the community of practitioners. It’s this idea that we don’t have to look for an individual, for a savior, for an Übermensch. I think the counter to Trump always has been and always will be civil society. ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/magazine/rebecca-solnit-interview.html

#RebeccaSolnit #ThichNhatHanh
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Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

The writer and activist on how political change happens and taking the long view.

The New York Times

Levka Mar 9

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"Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here
As the old saw goes, the only constant is change. But change doesn’t always feel as overwhelming as it does right now. We are living in an era of widespread democratic backsliding, sweeping technological disruption and the slow-motion disaster of the climate crisis, to name just a few of the most troubling societal upheavals. But what if, despite all that, there’s a different and more hopeful story to tell about change?

That’s the question at the heart of 'The Beginning Comes After the End,'t he new book by the prolific and critically acclaimed progressive writer Rebecca Solnit. A thematic sequel to her classic 'Hope in the Dark,' the book shines a light on the vibrant world often hidden within our own seemingly gloomier one — a world that has embraced ideas of interconnection, ecological care and political equality. It’s not a naïve book — Solnit is keenly aware of the challenges we’re all facing — but it provides a stabilizing counterweight to the feeling that the world, of late, has spun dangerously off-kilter."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/magazine/rebecca-solnit-interview.html